Hope and exploitation.
How do we encourage patients to be hopeful without exploiting their hope? A medical researcher or a pharmaceutical company can take unfair advantage of someone's hope by much subtler means than simply giving misinformation. Hope shapes deliberation, and therefore can make deliberation better or worse, by the deliberator's own standards of deliberation.
Martin
Adrienne M
AM
University of Pennsylvania, Penn Center for Bioethics, USA.
D001293:Attitude to Death; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000941:ethics*; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000941:ethics* / Q000523:psychology*; D010358:Patient Participation / Q000523:psychology*; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics